| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 246 |
Marlenus left the tent, seemingly one of the Afflicted, a bent wreck of humanity pathetically scratching at the earth in front of him with the staff. |
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| 18 | 90 |
Then, in frustration, I backed slowly away, hoping to see some lever or perhaps some suspicious crevice higher in the escarpment, something that might play its role in opening the passage I was sure lay hidden somewhere behind that seemingly solid mass of stone. |
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| 8 | 4 |
Curiously, I examined the crowds, all seemingly bent on their business, yet strangely tight lipped, subdued, much different from the normal, bustling throngs of a Gorean city. |
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| 11 | 245 |
She rose, seemingly beside herself with rage. |
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| 25 | 11 |
Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors. |
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| 3 | 39 |
Yet I supposed this seemingly impervious wall must house the portal of the Hall of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 42 |
Overhead a wild Gorean kite, shrilling, beat its lonely way from this place, seemingly no different from a thousand other places on these broad grasslands of the south. |
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| 7 | 15 |
We mounted the dais and approached the seemingly somnolent figure seated upon it. |
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| 8 | 582 |
Elizabeth stood facing me, not frightened, but seemingly rather put upon. |
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| 13 | 122 |
The kaiila and its master fight in battle as one unit, seemingly a single savage animal, armed with teeth and lance. |
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| 17 | 27 |
It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f... |
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| 25 | 164 |
I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in... |
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| 4 | 195 |
Cernus leaned back again, seemingly satisfied. |
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| 7 | 99 |
The man from the ship, seemingly anxious to be on his way, had now returned to the interior of the ship. |
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| 19 | 177 |
She scratched herself, and looked about herself, seemingly obtuse and surly. |
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| 20 | 124 |
I recalled that in his kitchen, seemingly months ago, though only a handful of days past, I had seen a mutilated girl. |
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| 1 | 66 |
I recalled Samos, slumped in his marble chair at the Curulean in Ar, seemingly indolent, but indolent as might be the satisfied beast of prey. |
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| 2 | 132 |
I heard traffic far below, a car honking, seemingly far away. |
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| 6 | 22 |
Around me, soft, undulating, glistening with dew in the dim light, I could see nothing but grassy fields, seemingly endless fields, rolling and rolling, sweeping away from me on all sides toward horizons that might be empty. |
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| 9 | 283 |
Bright in the dark, star-strewn Gorean sky, large, dominating, seemingly close enough to touch, loomed the three moons of Gor. |
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| 13 | 640 |
I heard some clanging of pans, some seemingly celebratory, or congratulatory, pounding on kettles, perhaps with large metal spoons. |
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| 6 | 1022 |
Such tasks, seemingly so simple to you, are not always without difficulty. |
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| 15 | 314 |
There was, seemingly left over, the yard of chain, coiled on the grass, attached to the front of her ankle ring. |
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| 15 | 350 |
Among these items I found the remaining bottles of drugged wine, those which we had not drunk, when we had fallen captive to Verna and her band, now seemingly so long ago. |
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| 18 | 433 |
What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui... |
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| 5 | 41 |
Her eyes were shut, her teeth clenched on her lip, her face agonized; her arms were above her head, her fists clenched, and yet, seemingly in isolation, seemingly against her resolve, her body moved, forcing her to be beautiful before men. |
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| 1 | 168 |
The hips of the dancer now moved, seemingly in isolation from the rest of her body, though her wrists and hands, ever so slightly, moved to the music. |
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| 1 | 715 |
Before each man, for moments seemingly his alone, she danced her beauty. |
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| 17 | 82 |
The waters were dark, seemingly empty. |
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| 20 | 29 |
On its left forepaw, or hand, on one of the six digits, was a heavy ring, seemingly of gold. |
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| 1 | 107 |
I, small, white, was chained by the neck to that great rock on the seemingly endless plain. |
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| 4 | 239 |
The ingenuity and care lavished upon the slave rag, seemingly such a pathetic accident of a garment, is a careful secret well kept among slave girls. |
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| 12 | 214 |
Sometimes, occasionally, when the mood was on me, when it had amused me, I had teased the boys of Earth, seemingly inviting their attentions, and then, when they had responded, as expected, I had feigned astonishment and disgust, rage and scorn, indignation, even horror, that they had been so bold, ... |
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| 13 | 152 |
As I lay, lashed, quivering, in misery, on the surface of the block, I realized that that seemingly insignificant little fact, the piercing of the ears, had indeed, as I had been informed, a most significant import on Gor. |
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| 22 | 405 |
"Why would they—men, beasts—strip me?" It was not hard, in the darkness, to detect the curiosity, the suppressed excitement, in her voice, in that question, seemingly so appropriate, so innocent. |
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| 24 | 188 |
He had not been interested in buying me, though he seemingly recognized I might plausibly be a silver-tarsk girl, which was flattering. |
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| 27 | 325 |
There are many ways of conveying these needs, other than a glance, a seemingly inadvertent touch, and such, many of which are more or less stylized, and some of which involve clearly established conventions. |
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| 28 | 239 |
The girl in the house tunic, seemingly not yet broken in, not yet humbled and trained to the collar of pleasure, might have whetted the appetite of the buyers for an even more virginal, innocent form of merchandise, but, on the block, as I gathered from the remarks of the auctioneer and the response... |
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| 2 | 119 |
A casual individual would never expect that the seemingly incoherent design on a girl's ribbon would conceal a message which might be significant, or fateful. |
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| 13 | 288 |
Indeed, one of the apparent anomalies of Gor is the quality and linearity of certain roads, which are carefully kept in repair, roads which often, seemingly paradoxically, pass through sparsely populated territories. |
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| 1 | 344 |
Who wants to be served by a stupid slave? Many a girl in a Gorean market, accustomed to, and resigned to, the values of Earth, a world seemingly so enamored of simpler women, is surprised to find herself sooner brought helplessly to the chains of a master, sooner put to her knees, sooner subjected t... |
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| 6 | 41 |
Off the starboard bow lay a galley of the Voskjard, rocking on the water, seemingly somnolent, but we knew, in an instant, if we exposed our flank to her, she would come alive, springing to the attack. |
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| 9 | 125 |
The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, s... |
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| 16 | 13 |
Almost at that very moment, from the seemingly deserted buildings of Victoria, running and screaming, charging, brandishing an incredible assortment of chains, tools and weapons, there issued hundreds of the outraged citizens of Victoria. |
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| 17 | 264 |
And I recalled her, too, from an evening at a restaurant, when she had worn, so seemingly unaccountably, an incongruous-for-her, lovely, off-the-shoulder, svelte, white, satin-sheath dress. |
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| 20 | 1971 |
Similarly, sometimes a master waits a few days to name the slave, to see if an appropriate name, one seemingly right for the girl, suggests itself. |
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| 2 | 200 |
One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no... |
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| 2 | 240 |
The summers can be characterized by a searing sun and seemingly interminable droughts. |
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| 9 | 94 |
No group of white men was to bring more than ten kaiila across that seemingly placid boundary. |
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| 9 | 107 |
I looked again ahead, out beyond that seemingly placid boundary, out beyond the wands. |
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| 13 | 464 |
Were self-serving and self-seeking to be no longer permitted to me? Must I now live not for myself but for others? My reality was now different, but seemingly a thousand times more real than what I had hitherto taken to be reality. |
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| 16 | 5 |
Below us there lay little more, seemingly, than overturned and scattered wagons, some burned. |
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| 2 | 81 |
Conceive if you can then such a woman extracted from her familiar environs and suddenly, seemingly inexplicably, finding herself an illiterate, despised, half-clad slave girl on an exotic, alien world, at the mercy of masters to whose will and ways she must instantly, selflessly and fully succumb. |
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| 4 | 24 |
How startled would be the fellows in the office to discover that that trimly figured, luscious co-worker of theirs, to them seemingly so cool, aloof and inaccessible, is at home another man's slave. |
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| 4 | 26 |
Alerted by a code word in a seemingly innocent phone call, she prepares herself for her master. |
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| 25 | 36 |
Then the shield was again calm, again seemingly no more than a device of leather, one painted with designs and ornamented with feathers. |
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| 29 | 145 |
"Wasnapohdi," cried one of the warriors, "is it you?" Wasnapohdi, from her crouching position, fell immediately, seemingly unable to help herself, to her knees in the grass. |
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| 35 | 14 |
The woman's voice, from behind it, seemingly far away, was wild with rage. |
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| 42 | 109 |
I shuddered, seemingly suddenly chilled, and then turned the tarn about. |
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| 43 | 256 |
Her eyes were soft, and pleading, and seemingly submissive and humble. |
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| 46 | 155 |
Then over the barricade, now deserted by the enemy, passing between Mahpiyasapa's defenders, came our second group, that which, seemingly, had been held in reserve. |
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| 47 | 132 |
My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l... |
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| 47 | 148 |
Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra... |
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| 2 | 270 |
I adjusted the towel a bit about my breasts, seemingly inadvertently, accidentally, pulling it down a bit, and then, hastily, with seeming modesty, tucking it securely, much higher, even more closely, about my body. |
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| 2 | 317 |
If so, what could it mean? I knelt at their feet, on the tiles, in the towel, seemingly almost forgotten as they chatted. |
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| 3 | 72 |
That thing supplied a solid reference point in this seemingly incredible transition between environments. |
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| 4 | 24 |
He had received a bowl from Speusippus which was purportedly silver, a bowl seemingly stamped with the appropriate seal of Ar. |
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| 5 | 111 |
"I see that there is gold in Corcyrus," he said, indicating the coins in their plenitudes, seemingly casually spilled about the steps. |
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| 6 | 215 |
He need not know that I often, for no reason I clearly understood, in the loneliness of my quarters, slept at the lower end of the great couch, near the slave ring, and sometimes, seemingly almost unable to help myself, had slipped from the couch and knelt beside it in the darkness, and lifted it, a... |
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| 8 | 138 |
Why did Gorean men, seemingly so naturally, look upon me as a slave? "Follow me," said the young man, turning about. |
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| 8 | 368 |
I was startled that one such as he, seemingly so scholarly and gentle, possessed such uncompromising strength. |
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| 15 | 61 |
I, my head down, my hair about my neck and shoulders, hopefully tending to conceal the bareness of my neck, the absence there of a steel circlet, fell into step behind them, seemingly, I hoped, only another slave on her way back to her master. |
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| 20 | 26 |
I sometimes brushed against him, or touched him, seemingly inadvertently. |
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| 23 | 202 |
But still the beast did not desist! The sensation that Speusippus had begun to induce in me long ago, that which had struck such terror into me, now, seemingly from somewhere deep in my belly, began to emerge irresistibly. |
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| 24 | 109 |
Behind him was a table, on which there were, aligned, several collars, all seemingly identical in appearance and design. |
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| 27 | 121 |
"Similarly," said the whip master, "do not forget to press your body sometimes against that of the master, sometimes seemingly inadvertently. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Along these lines, for example, it is easy, seemingly accidentally, to brush his lips with a pendant breast. |
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| 35 | 33 |
In a few moments, again, I was serving the men, bringing them food and drink, seemingly as though nothing had happened. |
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| 36 | 235 |
I had, in a thousand ways, in glances, in small words, in smiles, in tiny gestures, in movements, in seemingly careless proximities, in seeming inadvertencies, tormented him. |
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| 36 | 752 |
He looked away, again, again seemingly lost in thought. |
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| 36 | 1383 |
Further, of course, you, seemingly so haughty and mighty a Tatrix, treated me with injustice and scorn. |
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| 6 | 116 |
How seemingly distraught she was, how seemingly dismayed she was with her dilemma! "Kneel down!" called a man jovially. |
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| 12 | 64 |
He could not take it with his Ubara, of course, sweeping down his Ubara's Tarnsman's file, because it was protected now by my other Rider of the High Tharlarion, that hitherto, seemingly innocent, seemingly uninvolved piece which had just happened, apparently, to be posted at Ubara's Scribe Two. |
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| 2 | 82 |
Who was that fellow, for example, who poured paga on one's head? And who, the free woman might wonder, was that fellow who gave her so sudden, so unexpected, so fierce a pinch? Indeed, perhaps she is fortunate that her very veil was not lifted up and her lips pressed by those of a stranger, or was i... |
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| 2 | 927 |
Better surely to be the silked love slave of a private master about whose feet one learns to curl lovingly than to spend long Ahn over tubs of scalding water, or, yoked, bent over, again and again, miserable, carrying water to mine slaves, or standing aching, seemingly endlessly, at a loom to which ... |
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| 5 | 42 |
The darkness of a seemingly deserted inn might appear ominous, perhaps suggesting a trap". |
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| 6 | 376 |
"Oh! Oh!" "Well," said Boots, seemingly folding the cloth, "I must be on my way". |
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| 7 | 349 |
For example, it can be a sexual experience for a woman to do what a man tells her, for example, to fetch something, or be silent, or leave the room, or to do something, almost anything, perhaps seemingly trivial, for a man. |
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| 10 | 849 |
They, as slaves, knew enough not to ask for an explanation of this seemingly peculiar command. |
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| 10 | 862 |
It is amusing to sense a slave trying to ferret out information, indirectly, with seemingly irrelevant remarks or observations, or such. |
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| 10 | 863 |
Apparently, for some reason, ignorance of one thing or another can be very disturbing for a female, sometimes seemingly excruciatingly so. |
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| 13 | 175 |
This object, alert, every nerve seemingly tensely alive, was chained in the center of the pit. |
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| 14 | 216 |
"Do not permit us to sway your decision," said Flaminius, "but it has been our usual experience in similar situations, that the individual involved waits until the sleen are almost upon him and then, seemingly almost uncontrollably, runs into the pack. |
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| 14 | 314 |
Its passage's swift route was actually visible in the animals, like a wave spreading along, and registered in, their backs and fur, in their sudden stillness, then in the sudden alertness of them, then in the quivering agitation which seemed to transform the entire pack, hitherto seemingly so tranqu... |
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| 14 | 434 |
Too many urts, seemingly intent upon me, crowded about me. |
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| 16 | 33 |
He now waved it about, menacingly, seemingly almost as though it might decapitate anyone within a range of several feet. |
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| 16 | 127 |
"Of course!" responded Petrucchio, somewhat huffily, seemingly prepared, at the drop of an innuendo, to take umbrage, with all the fearsome consequences which that might entail for a hapless offender. |
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| 16 | 128 |
"How fortunate they are to be under the care of one so skilled and courageous, as well as wise," said Chino, adding, seemingly sotto voce, to Lecchio, "or so it would seem". |
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| 16 | 780 |
I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles. |
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| 18 | 208 |
She did not wear the heavy trick manacles, seemingly suitable for men, in which I had been placed earlier in Boots's camp. |
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| 18 | 250 |
After I had left the trunk, which I had done late after being brought into the palace, this ruse having accomplished my entry into these precincts, I had donned the uniform seemingly of an officer of Brundisium. |
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| 18 | 370 |
The corridor was long and seemingly empty, on both sides of the door, save for such things as closed doors, presumably locked, slave rings, niches here and there, vases, and decorative plantings. |
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| 18 | 512 |
Beneath the merchants' robes I wore that uniform seemingly of an officer of Brundisium. |
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| 20 | 7 |
The Kur, with that agility seemingly so unnatural and surprising in a beast of its size, descended from the ubar's box and interposed itself between me and the pathetic figure, now staring wildly upward, fallen, twisting and shuddering, moved this way and that, being pulled and shaken, being torn by... |
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| 21 | 90 |
Arranged in various ways on these boards were letters, sometimes beginning from a word, sometimes from a random, or seemingly random alignment of letters. |
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| 21 | 96 |
Some of the lists had small marks after some of the words, seemingly casual, meaningless marks. |
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| 21 | 102 |
The true concealment of the papers, one assuredly calculated to deceive those individuals who might have some just notion of their value, one worthy of Belnar's brilliance, was to have them lying about, almost casually, mixed in, and seemingly belonging with, papers of no great importance. |
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| 21 | 111 |
That being the case the abundance of hand-written notes and records about, seemingly related to the game, must, at least to some observers, appear something of an anomaly. |
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| 22 | 204 |
This information, and I did not doubt but what it was sound, I had had from Flaminius, he of Ar, though seemingly traitor to that city. |
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| 3 | 95 |
"Well," he said, seemingly perhaps a bit mollified, "we shall see". |
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| 4 | 269 |
Some of the others nodded, too, seemingly having noted this. |
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| 6 | 167 |
"'Take my purse, my gold, all of it!'" "'As a gift,' he asked, seemingly delighted, though perhaps somewhat puzzled. |
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| 6 | 205 |
He then, now seemingly content, left. |
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| 16 | 594 |
But now, confused, troubled, and learning, seemingly for the first time, of her own beauty, and desirability, she knew not how to respond. |
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| 16 | 739 |
I gather that she, in the customary, unquestioning self-centeredness and vanity of her youth, seemingly so inevitable in the young, has given little concern to your feelings, to your reality as an independent woman and human being, that she has scarcely thought of you, or understood you, in these wa... |
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| 16 | 1271 |
Boabissia would walk straightly by these fellows, regally, her head high, seemingly ignoring them, apparently not even deigning to glance at them. |
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| 19 | 484 |
I was, as I recalled, seemingly not the first to have been dispatched upon this delicate mission. |
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| 24 | 289 |
In a bit, then, the attendant, seemingly informed as to what was required, left the room. |
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| 25 | 1090 |
She moved subtly, charmingly, seemingly inadvertently, within the dress. |
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| 25 | 1321 |
"What is wrong?" I asked, seemingly concerned. |
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| 25 | 2126 |
"How I despised and hated those poor weak fools seemingly so incapable of giving me anything else! Were they men or not? I felt like biting and kicking them in frustration and rage! Had I done so they would doubtless have been stunned and dismayed. |
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| 24 | 427 |
I could see the figures, and the palanquin, seemingly small, seemingly far above me, seemingly far away from me, on the ridge. |
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| 24 | 45 |
The distance, seemingly rather small, on the one hand, and rather large, on the other, was seemingly dictated by a twofold consideration, the preclusion of my capacity to run and the convenience of the guards, particularly when I was supine, a position in which they sometimes placed me. |
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| 28 | 265 |
I laughed, and so, too, did Tupita, but then we looked about ourselves, at the sheer walls of the shaft about us, and up at the opening, doubtless wide enough, but, from here, seemingly so small, seemingly so far above. |
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| 1 | 132 |
I was lonely and miserable! I wondered if somewhere in nature there might lie not only an explanation for these needs, so seemingly mysterious and inexplicable, given my environment, my education, my training, my conditioning, so different from them, but also some dark complement to them, some respo... |
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| 1 | 133 |
Did they not belong in some organic whole, in some natural relationship, selected for throughout time and history? The bee's dances betokened an avenue to nectar; the fragrance of the flower, seemingly such a meaningless thing of beauty, called forth, luring the bee to its pollen; the swiftness of t... |
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| 2 | 75 |
His bulk, somehow seemingly ungainly in that suit and tie, seemed to fill the space between the shelves. |
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| 3 | 756 |
"It is like it in many ways," he said, seemingly amused. |
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| 6 | 253 |
Often the urts, those tiny, swift, sleek, furtive rodents, bold in their familiarity with, and seemingly assumed privileges in, the place, would rush to food before we could reach it and, almost at our cheek, snatch it up and scurry away to their holes, through the narrowly spaced bars and small cre... |
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| 7 | 73 |
More than once, they had investigated, and tested, and seemingly to their anger and disappointment, the obduracy and effectiveness of the metal device in which I had been fastened. |
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| 11 | 953 |
I suddenly by expression and movement, an almost involuntary contortion of my belly, seemingly startling me, and frightening me, appeared to suddenly sense, or glimpse, my sexuality. |
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| 11 | 1372 |
I then heard him pick up a sheet of paper and, seemingly, clean his thumb on the paper. |
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| 11 | 1633 |
But in the context of these reflections, seemingly focused primarily on simple feelings and sensations, let me reemphasize the wholeness of the context. |
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| 13 | 187 |
And, at times, recollecting, or seeming to recollect, such times and places, and their naturalness, and rightness, and their fulfillments and ecstasies, I, lonely and yearning, seemingly an exile in the sexual deserts of my own world and time, had wept. |
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| 13 | 509 |
I fought, seemingly only half conscious for a moment, to keep my hands together behind my back. |
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| 17 | 240 |
Sometimes in my dance I made use of the chain, sometimes pretending, to the music, to fight it, a fight which I had to lose, or not to understand it, looking to the men then, as though they might explain its meaning to me; they did, with raucous cries; sometimes I used it to caress me, with the soft... |
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| 20 | 156 |
They are taken for granted, usually, by all the citizens, and their remote origins, sometimes doubtless the outcome of internecine strife, of class war, of street fighting and riots, of bloody, house-to-house determinations in the past, and such, are seldom investigated, save perhaps by historians, ... |
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| 20 | 386 |
They then, to my relief, seemingly continued on their way, albeit slowly, one drawing the cart, the other pushing it. |
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| 24 | 322 |
It was my desperate hope to turn their wrath, and their desire for vengeance, seemingly at the beginning so adamant, so fierce and unrelenting, to interest, and desire, and passion. |
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| 25 | 90 |
The next day the auspices had been taken, and, seemingly, all had gone well. |
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| 32 | 86 |
I remembered the first moment I had seen him, looking up from the desk, seeing him there, before me, I in the dark sweater and the long-sleeved blouse, he in that dark suit, with a tie, such things seemingly so ungainly on him. |
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| 33 | 274 |
It was a whip such as his that I was born to kiss! It was at the feet of one such as he that I was destined to kneel! It was for one such as he that I was born to be a slave! It was for one such as he that I was born a woman! "If you are caught, on the other hand," said he, seemingly uncognizant of ... |
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| 5 | 67 |
Muchly must she be concerned, too, with matters of couture, so to speak, that is, the arrangements of adornments, the knotting of camisks, the hang of the slave tunic, the subtle, seemingly careless appointments of the ta-teera, the manifold drapings of silk, and such. |
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| 5 | 83 |
Did they hope, in their light-hearted banter and glances, in their pretended indifference and nonchalance, in the seemingly meaningless froth of the evening, that a man would look upon them, and understand what they were trying to tell him, though perhaps they were only partially aware of it themsel... |
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| 5 | 396 |
By such devices one obtains variety, or its deceptive surrogate, even in a substance seemingly so initially unpromising as inn porridge. |
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| 7 | 3 |
The fellow then attending on the baths, rather large for such a fellow, it might seem, hooded, too, perhaps to disguise scarring of such a nature as might turn the stomachs of bathers, enveloped in a cloak, hobbling, perhaps the result of a fall from tarnback, hurried, seemingly alarmed, to the bric... |
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| 7 | 11 |
The fellow, thus, who seemingly was fond of his luxuries, would have to wait for a time, and then, when the water was comfortably warm, could presumably be counted upon, if only in compensation for his discomfort and inconvenience, to dally for a while. |
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| 8 | 116 |
There, in the palm of her right hand, was a small sack, bulging, seemingly weighty for its size, from the look of it, a sack of coins. |
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| 10 | 406 |
More quarrels struck about me, bursting chips from the wall, some striking me like stinging pebbles, then, at last, after a seemingly endless ascent, hands burning and raw, I was at the height of the wall, some eighty feet above the embankment, and hands reached out, seized me, and pulled me inward,... |
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| 11 | 33 |
"Yes," said the fellow sitting on the curule chair, a strongly built man, though one now seemingly weary, one with a bloodied bandage about his head, "she was once quite beautiful". |
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| 15 | 965 |
He turned, in the dust, pointing back to the wall, startled, that he would apprise me of his discovery, not even seemingly suspicious, and met the stone in my hand, part of the wall I had seized up, and sank to his knees. |
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| 16 | 315 |
We heard some cheers from down on the wall, a handful, presumably greeting the appearance of the impaling spear, seemingly burdened. |
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| 16 | 345 |
"If she is rescued," said Lady Claudia, looking back at the lovely, nude figure, seemingly mounted upon the impaling spear, "doubtless she will deny she is a slave". |
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| 17 | 633 |
I then saw the great iron head seemingly become smoothly larger and larger as it swept forward. |
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| 21 | 747 |
"It was thought by many in Ar, seemingly Marlenus among them," said Aemilianus, "that entry into the league would appear to accept the principle that Ar was but one power among others on the river, and not the sole mistress of the waterway, as she would be. |
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| 21 | 897 |
Then, suddenly, in a moment, as of panic, seemingly unable to help herself, she tried the chains, those on her wrists, trying to slip them from her wrists, then jerking at them, but they held her well. |
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| 23 | 111 |
"I love men," she confessed, seemingly scarcely daring to whisper it. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 347 |
So deeply ran former loyalties, in spite of the failure of Ar, seemingly inexplicably, to relieve Ar's Station. |
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| 1 | 376 |
But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar had not struck, ... |
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| 1 | 389 |
She approached, humbly, frightened, seemingly terribly conscious of my eyes on her. |
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| 12 | 26 |
She was small and her figure, obscured to be sure under the heavy fabrics of the robes of concealment, surely uncomfortable, and seemingly incongruous, in the delta, seemed cuddly. |
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| 13 | 344 |
"Beware!" I watched the smooth, gliding descent of the bird, the sloping pattern, the creature seemingly almost motionless in the air, but seeming to grow larger every instant. |
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| 18 | 3 |
To be sure, the movement of the tube, particularly if seemingly purposeful, if noticed, should excite immediate suspicion. |
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| 18 | 41 |
The center waves, seemingly obedient to some statistical imperative, enjoyed that distinction. |
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| 19 | 1239 |
Then I think of her inveterate hatred toward her embonded sisters, seemingly so inexplicable, and I wonder if she is truly so naive or uninformed as she pretends. |
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| 19 | 1812 |
"Doubtless they have no choice," she said, seemingly as though distressed, but with an undercurrent of tenseness and excitement. |
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| 27 | 9 |
Sometimes such pools are extremely treacherous, as when they have a natural concealment, the sand at their top, supported by surface tension, seemingly continuous with adjacent sand, or when covered with algae or swamp growth. |
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| 37 | 11 |
She saw me and immediately knelt, seemingly frightened, though for what reason I could not guess. |
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| 40 | 108 |
"Days later," said the narrator, "two soldiers with clubs, hunting urts for sport, followed a large urt into a basement where it seemingly disappeared. |
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| 43 | 70 |
She looked up at Marcus, as though in awe, as though seemingly unable to take her eyes from him. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 |
She was naked in the toils of the net, and now lay on her side, her legs drawn up in it, now seemingly small and very vulnerable, so bared and caught, on the deep furs of the huge couch. |
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| 3 | 152 |
I did not doubt but what he was circulating about, seemingly merely wandering about, but showing her off. |
10 |
| 3 | 564 |
I supposed that she, even there, standing so seemingly still, pretending to be a mere observer, could feel the dance in her body, in its myriad incipient movements, tiny movements in her legs, in her belly, in her body, in herself, in the wholeness of her womanhood. |
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| 6 | 42 |
Indeed, several fellows I have known, of the scarlet caste, take pains to conceal their literacy, seemingly ashamed of an expertise in such matters, regarding such as befitting scribes rather than warriors. |
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| 7 | 180 |
There is often a delicate balance in such things, and sometimes in such situations even a small action, even a seemingly insignificant stimulus, can trigger a sudden, massive response. |
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| 9 | 576 |
Would it not, with its fellow, take a slave bracelet nicely? Sometimes, too, they are so careless as to inadvertently, or seemingly so, move as a slave. |
10 |
| 12 | 225 |
How much more tactful, sensitive and inventive are intelligent slaves! Indeed, the intelligence of some slaves blossoms in bondage, seemingly at last finding the apt environment for its flowering. |
10 |
| 12 | 404 |
I am not certain of the explanation of this seemingly unreasoning, inexplicable hatred. |
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| 15 | 16 |
Soon one or two youths, seemingly overcome with hatred, had leaped upon the records and were tearing them apart and hurling them to the gathered crowd. |
10 |
| 17 | 211 |
He then, seemingly distraught, let the front panel fall forward again. |
10 |
| 18 | 94 |
"Appanius is not one to be lightly trifled with!" said the fellow, seemingly somewhat emboldened by the retreat of my blade. |
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| 20 | 555 |
Such attentions, seemingly small in themselves, subtly, explosively, erupt in the cognizances of her belly. |
10 |
| 21 | 144 |
She read the letter in her hands over and over, seemingly avidly. |
10 |
| 22 | 456 |
I could then renew my contact with them from a distance, discreetly observing the encounter between that party and a girl seemingly in the garments of the state slave. |
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| 22 | 535 |
Lavinia then, seemingly overcome, trembling, put herself to her belly before him, her lips and hair over his sandals, and beggingly, timidly, as though she feared she might be struck or kicked, began to kiss and lick his feet. |
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| 25 | 3 |
Almost at the same time, weeping with misery and rage, he had rushed into the front room, his staff raised, followed by his four retainers, all seemingly sharing their employer's wrath and indignation, as befitted such fellows. |
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| 28 | 12 |
Yet for these stones, and on account of these stones, these seemingly inauspicious, simple objects, cities have been built, and burned, armies have clashed, strong men have wept, empires have risen and fallen. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 17 |
We could see a figure, a large figure, a grotesque, monstrous figure, seemingly part human, seemingly part animal, bent over, near the wall, before us and to our left. |
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| 7 | 848 |
I had not attempted, or had I, to solicit such commands? There are, of course, ways in which women such as I, subtly, wordlessly, with a tiny movement of the body, a seemingly inadvertent placement of ourselves, a lifting of the bosom, a catching of the breath, the shyest of glances, the tiniest mov... |
10 |
| 8 | 591 |
I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis... |
10 |
| 10 | 320 |
"Kajira!" called more than one man, in a given cell, as we passed them, seemingly to alert those in cells farther down the trail as to our passage. |
10 |
| 10 | 420 |
The jailer, below me, his foot in the stirrup, his left hand on the rope, was seemingly contemplating the mountains. |
10 |
| 11 | 1035 |
I realized now, only too clearly, that this primitive, barbaric, homely little detail, seemingly so tiny in itself, the piercing of the ears, making possible the affixing of certain forms of ornaments, seemed, for some reason, quite momentous to them. |
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| 11 | 1386 |
How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fi... |
10 |
| 11 | 1716 |
Too, I gathered that there was discipline in this place, and here I do not speak of such things as the correctives and admonitives, however sure, strict and severe, to which an errant slave might find herself subjected, but of sterner stuff, the discipline of the military, that of the Warrior, that ... |
10 |
| 11 | 1742 |
How foolish this was, for would it not call attention to the slave at their feet? But surely this was all quite innocent, and quite unintentional, or, at least, must be seemingly so. |
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| 11 | 1880 |
After a little I was gasping, buffeted and weeping, seemingly struck from one side to another. |
10 |
| 12 | 285 |
"That is doubtless it," she said, seemingly satisfied. |
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| 13 | 973 |
She might have noted it, earlier, even when the pit master, seemingly idly curious, before beating me, he not having concerned himself with the matter before, examined the collar. |
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| 15 | 101 |
He continued to gaze, seemingly unseeingly, into space. |
10 |
| 17 | 32 |
"I have seen you move," said the pit master, his rage seemingly dissipated. |
10 |
| 18 | 60 |
Indeed, sometimes cities compete in such modalities, each seemingly eager to stimulate the admiration, if not excite the envy, of her neighbors. |
10 |
| 19 | 89 |
Even tiny bits of information can be significant, and a number of bits of information, each seemingly insignificant and unrelated to others, sometimes, properly organized and understood, like a suddenly assembled jigsaw puzzle, may yield a picture which is not only clear but meaningful. |
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| 19 | 370 |
But if it can be dangerous for a slave to look too boldly into the eyes of a mere stranger, if such can invite a kick or a cuff, or even a whipping, imagine how wary one would be of meeting, and how one would fear to meet, the eyes of one such as the gaunt figure, the eyes of one seemingly unbalance... |
10 |
| 31 | 221 |
The peasant lifted his eyes, seemingly vacant, toward the leader of the strangers. |
10 |
| 37 | 472 |
He had then cried out, as though under attack, and, doubtless at the same time, during that seemingly agonized, hideous cry, fired into the urts at point-blank range, thereby killing or wounding one of them, and initiating the feeding frenzy. |
10 |
| 37 | 1007 |
He went under again, seemingly pulled down, and then, choking, spitting water, came again to the surface, closer. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 738 |
"You enjoyed, so subtly, so deferentially, so seemingly involuntarily, so seemingly helplessly, exhibiting your beauty". |
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| 2 | 130 |
So many years ago! It could not be he, of course, seemingly so young, after all these years. |
10 |
| 3 | 11 |
But, after a bit, despite what would have been her choice, her deeper subjectivity, anxiously, frightened, seemingly more informed than she herself, calling out, began to make itself heard; it seems then that her consciousness, patiently, insistently, responding, began little by little to overcome h... |
10 |
| 4 | 26 |
The older woman did not understand the meaning of the reference to "discipline," but something in that word, seemingly in its very sound, terrified her. |
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| 9 | 65 |
"Now," said Tutina, seemingly somewhat mollified, "remove your tunic. |
10 |
| 11 | 553 |
He then sat within it, seemingly lost in thought. |
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| 13 | 263 |
Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainl... |
10 |
| 13 | 393 |
Laura spread her knees more widely, but subtly, seemingly shyly, beneath her gown. |
10 |
| 15 | 625 |
Could it have been to give himself pleasure? Certainly he scrutinized her with care, and seemingly appreciatively. |
10 |
| 15 | 700 |
"Continue to speak," he said, seemingly controlling his voice, keeping it calm, with an effort. |
10 |
| 16 | 13 |
How vigorous and remarkable, and diverse, and expressive, seemed that strange tongue, at once so lively, bright and fluent, even delicate, and then suddenly so explosively rude and brutal, at one moment loud, at another soft, at one moment rapid, even careless, at another measured and stately, at on... |
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| 16 | 149 |
On the collars of the girls closest to her, on her left and right, she could see numerous scratches, some things seemingly scratched in, and others scratched out. |
10 |
| 17 | 367 |
The second possible buyer who seemed to show some interest in Ellen, the first being he with whom she had with some success kept herself seemingly inert, did not come to the shelf until late in the afternoon. |
10 |
| 17 | 382 |
Its tail twitched, lashing back and forth, though not seemingly in anger, rather in excitement. |
10 |
| 17 | 925 |
Beyond that there were only a distant, now-seemingly-unreal world and conventions having to do with an invented, mechanistic time, devised for purposes of convenience, purposes irrelevant to the natural courses of nature. |
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| 18 | 297 |
A frequent thought in her mind, one she often tried to banish, was "Use me as a slave! Use me as the slave I am!" How startled, and seemingly upset, she had been upon occasion when she was dragged to the saddle for use, to discover, despite her seeming resistance, her trying to hang back, her wrist ... |
10 |
| 20 | 1 |
Coffled Ellen, choking in the dust raised by the clawed feet of restless saddle tharlarion, stirring, grunting, snorting, coming and going, seemingly all about her, miserable in the heat, shutting her eyes against the dust and glare, the sun burning on her back, weeping, the tears mixing with the g... |
10 |
| 21 | 200 |
How wonderful, thought Ellen, is the chance upon occasion to do something even as simple as washing one's body! How few people realize how precious so seemingly common and familiar an act can be at times! How grateful the slaves were for this opportunity to bathe! The rope on Ellen's ankle, as she h... |
10 |
| 22 | 88 |
Her ankles could be seen, above her slippered feet, as the robes were lifted a bit, seemingly having been inadvertently disarranged as she sat. |
10 |
| 24 | 375 |
The opening seemed inviting, seemingly beckoning her to flee into an alluring, salubrious, safely concealing darkness beyond, but for all the good it would have done her, it might as well have been sealed with granite and iron. |
10 |
| 24 | 471 |
But then she had been whipped, and upon her return to the area of preparation after her second dancing, Ellen, a mere barbarian, who had seemingly supplanted her in the favored position, had spoken sharply to her, a liberty which might have been authorized, as far as she knew, by the interior whip m... |
10 |
| 24 | 603 |
She extended her hands to the master, piteously, now begging, moving her hips and love cradle in mute entreaty, regarding him with wild, startled eyes, beseeching him with her beauty, imploring attention, soliciting, seemingly to her amazement, the touch of a free man, however, casual, on her embond... |
10 |
| 25 | 138 |
"Master," said 115, "may I speak?" He regarded her, and a moment's annoyance crossed his features, a tiny thing, but one which brought apprehension to the chain but then, seemingly, he found her pleasing. |
10 |
| 26 | 527 |
Then she was thrust down, on her stomach over some surface, that of seemingly a large, felled log. |
10 |
| 26 | 626 |
And guardsmen might even now be seeking the mysterious stranger, the seemingly lowly fellow, who had had coins from the mint at Jad. |
10 |
| 26 | 889 |
"But did he not tell Ellen, his slave, and in the presence of Master Canio, and others, that he wanted her, and seemingly badly, in his collar?" "Yes," he said. |
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| 26 | 936 |
She tried to remember the lessons of her training, limited though they might have been, the kisses, the pneumaticities, the subtleties, the delicacies, the gentleness, the deeper grasps, the swirlings of the tongue, the touchings with the side of her face, the caress of her breasts and hair, the occ... |
10 |
| 27 | 519 |
"Oh?" said Mirus, seemingly amused. |
10 |
| 27 | 1149 |
"He bought a slave with Cosian gold, that slave," he then indicating Ellen who, finding herself under the eyes of a free man, immediately knelt, not wishing to be punished, "gold seemingly of the trove which was diverted from the paymasters of the mercenaries in Ar". |
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| 27 | 1708 |
Motioned by swords and spears the three surviving beasts were herded, shambling, blinking, seemingly docile, toward the wagon. |
10 |
| 27 | 2769 |
Then she forgot, for the time, this seemingly puzzling inadvertence or inattention on his part. |
10 |
| 27 | 2772 |
The officer threw a hasty glance at the three beasts, seemingly no more than a somnolent mound of fur. |
10 |
| 27 | 3000 |
Tersius Major stood to one side, seemingly paralyzed with fear. |
10 |
| 28 | 31 |
But sexual needs and frustrations, so much suppressed, so hysterically denied, must then express themselves in pathological transmogrifications, express themselves in a thousand disguises, conceal themselves behind the disfigurations of a thousand masks, and issue in a multitude of seemingly unrelat... |
10 |
| 28 | 184 |
As they had seemingly pursued you, we supposed they might not easily abandon that venture. |
10 |
| 29 | 19 |
From the pommel of one saddle, seemingly not that of a guard, but perhaps of a civilian or merchant's agent accompanying the caravan, there looped downward a light, graceful chain to the throat of a naked, blond slave. |
10 |
| 30 | 34 |
It is sad, one supposes, to see one's species domesticated, to see this done to our race, and seemingly to be done with its consent, too, a race which might otherwise have become children of the stars. |
10 |
| 30 | 507 |
They might be careless with their veiling, or, seemingly inadvertently, reveal a wrist or ankle. |
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| 30 | 658 |
Perhaps some of the mysterious, untraceable, coded radio signals on Earth, seemingly indecipherable, perhaps indexed to an unfamiliar language, so perplexing to terrestrial authorities, pertain to this form of merchandising, the transmission of orders, the reports of scouts, the arrangements for, an... |
10 |
| 30 | 665 |
Know, too, proud, vulnerable woman of Earth, that you might be observed, yes, you, literally you, personally you, exactly you, you who are now reading this, observed, carefully observed, scrutinized and noted, perhaps in the bright, cool office where you work; perhaps at the beach, where you thought... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 325 |
He remained motionless in the clutch of the Kur who held him, not struggling, passive, seemingly docile, seemingly resigned to his fate, whatever it might be. |
10 |
| 51 | 93 |
"There is some possibility," said Cabot, "that the seeming dearth of female passion on such a world, seemingly so unnaturally pervasive, seemingly so inexplicable, is actually in its way an evidence not of the absence or weakness of female drives and needs, but of their remarkable strength, which re... |
10 |
| 73 | 189 |
"But she is to come to this understanding," said Cabot, "seemingly in a manner appropriate for a slave, a manner seemingly innocent of intention, as if none were interested in informing her. |
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| 1 | 158 |
I personally suspect that this lapse of attentiveness or this seemingly tolerant permissiveness, or this seeming lack of zeal, on the part of Priest-Kings, and their ships, presumably mostly automated and remotely controlled, has less to do with technological limitations than with some reordering of... |
10 |
| 1 | 187 |
That is seemingly the Gorean way. |
10 |
| 1 | 201 |
Shortly before the unexpected disruption, one which seems to have taken even Priest-Kings unawares, this seemingly adding indisputable and welcome evidence as to their limitations and vulnerability, two human females were entered into the container in question. |
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| 1 | 502 |
Whereas the surprise of the Steel Worlds' girl at this seemingly unmotivated and unaccountable behavior on the part of the other female is understandable, given her background and experiences, I think that it will be in general comprehensible for most of us, and presumably for the majority of our re... |
10 |
| 1 | 503 |
It was not unusual, at any rate, for a civilized female, to the extent that such are civilized, suddenly confronted with a seemingly inexplicable transformation in her circumstances and condition, to behave in a manner which suggests bewilderment and alarm. |
10 |
| 1 | 580 |
Then began a nightmare of fear and pursuit, when time and time again she thought herself secure, and having escaped, only to be confronted with a new evidence of the proximity, seemingly ever more closely, of those who followed her. |
10 |
| 1 | 642 |
She commonly dressed with a seemingly understated but yet all too obvious elegance. |
10 |
| 1 | 699 |
She seemed startled that such seemingly articulate sounds should emanate from a human. |
10 |
| 1 | 706 |
He did not think she was retarded because she had a lively, seemingly perceptive sense about her, and she repeated a number of his sounds with an alacrity and accuracy that suggested, rather, an agile, quick mind. |
10 |
| 1 | 914 |
The very thought that she might be a slave, such an abjectly debased and degraded thing, had seemingly been found insulting, demeaning, and outrageously offensive. |
10 |
| 1 | 921 |
Some sensitivity, seemingly, had here been somehow engaged. |
10 |
| 2 | 353 |
At this point Cabot, who had hitherto for some time remained inert, seemingly crushed and defeated, reconciled to whatever might lie in store for him, in the grasp of his captor, suddenly lashed back with his elbow, striking sharply, heavily, as an ax, into the ribs of the Kur who held him, who, sta... |
10 |
| 4 | 94 |
Little wonder then, he thought, that so many of the women of Earth languish, deprived, in sexuality's polar wastes, that so many suffer seemingly inexplicable chronic ailments, that so many are mired in boredom or depression, that so many are twisted in neurosis, that so many are frustrated, miserab... |
10 |
| 8 | 43 |
"Tal," it said, through a translator, seemingly within the metallic body. |
10 |
| 10 | 168 |
"You are not displeased," said Pyrrhus, "to see her, a female of your own species, and one seemingly so important to you that you have sought her out here, so reduced, now chained and collared, now no more than a Kur pet?" "Not at all," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 13 | 102 |
Cabot was then surrounded by the others, who clapped him on the arms and back, and uttered soft noises, seemingly indicative of acceptance and approval. |
10 |
| 16 | 70 |
Archon would have seen to it that something of a trail, a dislodged pebble, a crushed leaf, a snapped twig, a bit of fur seemingly snagged on a branch, would draw the party in this direction. |
10 |
| 18 | 103 |
What slave does not know that even the slightest sound of her chain, seemingly inadvertent, may stir a master to distraction. |
10 |
| 18 | 117 |
When leashed, however, and used as controlled hunting animals, they often drag against their leashes, and harnesses, attempt to hurry the hunters, growl in frustration, and sometimes utter an angry squealing sound, as though protesting the supposed dalliance of the leash masters, the seemingly unnec... |
10 |
| 18 | 180 |
When foreign tarnsmen, intent on plying chain luck, descend to acquire this seemingly vulnerable trove of loveliness, they are surprised, for numerous guardsmen emerge suddenly from concealed pits and encircle them. |
10 |
| 21 | 20 |
"There are venders about," said Cabot, "seemingly selling treats". |
10 |
| 25 | 7 |
Too, he spoke to them with abruptness, and authority, seemingly unquestioned, and this startled them, for his authority might have been genuine. |
10 |
| 25 | 21 |
Did she not know she was in the presence of a free man? "Excellent work!" Cabot commended the two Kurii, and they glanced at one another, seemingly pleased. |
10 |
| 28 | 77 |
"There," said Cabot, pointing upward, toward a shimmering patch of silver, seemingly small at the distance, amongst the forests above". |
10 |
| 32 | 164 |
"I saw how you attempted to display yourself to this fellow in the container, how you turned, seemingly so innocently, to exhibit your figure, how you held your head, at this attitude or another, how you extended your legs, and held your arms, how you pointed your toes to curve your calves in that d... |
10 |
| 33 | 187 |
It drew back, flesh hanging from the side of its jaw, seemingly more puzzled than injured. |
10 |
| 34 | 253 |
"And thus I suspect we were to be finished in the storm," he said, "seemingly as the unfortunate consequence of an unforeseen accident, and thus without any compromise whatsoever to future services which the Lady Bina might render to Agamemnon". |
10 |
| 36 | 46 |
A saying in the Gorean north, seemingly related, is to speak of a defeated force as having been given over to the feasting of jards. |
10 |
| 39 | 45 |
A large Kur on the ground, looking wildly about, seemingly issued orders to a fellow Kur, doubtless a subordinate, who then, instantly, as one expects a Kur to obey, climbed one of the poles, turned about to view the terrain, and died. |
10 |
| 39 | 46 |
Cabot, who had noticed the Kur who had seemingly issued the order, put him next to the dust, he spinning about, and falling against the wall. |
10 |
| 47 | 57 |
Approaching the arsenal, hundreds of yards away, were two figures, one seemingly several yards in advance of the other. |
10 |
| 47 | 114 |
And so Lords Grendel and Statius stood, seemingly convinced that further flight was futile, wings spread, in the great threshold of the barren arsenal. |
10 |
| 51 | 78 |
"So I fail to understand," said Grendel, "how it is, if it be true, that so many of the women of the world we may have in mind are seemingly strangers to their bodies and needs". |
10 |
| 53 | 29 |
Long she wept, and cried out, and then she became sullen, then angry, then seemingly resigned, and then, one night, when she had not yet been chained, she slipped away". |
10 |
| 53 | 103 |
It was, seemingly, that of a neutral. |
10 |
| 57 | 40 |
"Glory to our cause!" In the threshold of the camp, startled, and seemingly jubilant, stood Flavion, who then rushed forward to embrace Lord Grendel, Cabot, Statius, Archon, and others, and then he bounded about, leaping into the air, uttering screeches of pleasure, and then, alighting, again and ag... |
10 |
| 57 | 122 |
"Might she not, under torture, as she is seemingly a valued and esteemed agent of great Agamemnon," said Cabot, "be encouraged to betray his secrets?" "She is human," said Flavion. |
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| 73 | 190 |
Let her obtain this information from the actions of diverse, seemingly unconcerned, casual intermediaries, perhaps from guards, attendants, even passersby, in the vicinity of the cages, bit by bit, from, say, a word dropped here and there, to which she, in her cage, desperate for knowledge, would be... |
10 |
| 73 | 191 |
Let her assemble this understanding then from seemingly inadvertent scraps, which she will zealously scrutinize, that she may put pieces together, as in a puzzle. |
10 |
| 78 | 9 |
Yet, perhaps their feelings are comprehensible to some degree, as they cannot help but take note, doubtless with some irritation, of the seemingly unaccountable contentment, fulfillment, happiness, and joy of the slave, a contentment, fulfillment, happiness, and joy of the absence of which in their ... |
10 |
| 80 | 130 |
"There are the steel worlds themselves, the vacuum ships, the power weapons, the translators, even such seemingly simple things as the heat knife, the customized weapon sheath, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 598 |
"Perhaps the woman hears the word 'slave' or 'collar' spoken in her vicinity, seemingly innocently, seemingly inadvertently, it having supposedly nothing to do with her. |
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| 1 | 188 |
These were both free women and I, who had seemingly displeased Priest-Kings had been, apparently, enclosed with them as an insidious punishment, that, sooner or later, as I weakened, becoming more bitter, frustrated, outraged, and needful, my honor would be compromised, or lost. |
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| 1 | 217 |
Following the denouement of the insurrection on the Steel World in question and, seemingly, in virtue of some interaction or agreement between Priest-Kings and victorious Kurii, it was determined that I, and others, were to be returned to Gor. |
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| 1 | 270 |
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo... |
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| 3 | 67 |
By this I mean, despite certain suitabilities of face and figure, she had something of the tightness, the apparent inhibitions, the uncertainties, and confusions, masked with the compensatory arrogance, nastiness, and insolence, of many Earth females, afflicted with the customary ambivalences toward... |
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| 4 | 290 |
"The deposit was seemingly made to a given bank, one selectively chosen, and you were furnished with what appeared to be documentation of this," I said. |
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| 8 | 62 |
When Pertinax awakened, he discovered my absence, doubtless to his considerable uneasiness, and had seemingly, swiftly, cast about to locate me, which event took place shortly. |
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| 9 | 452 |
The Garden of Gor, so to speak, both botanically and zoologically, had seemingly been stocked with care, at least at one time, apparently for interests both scientific and aesthetic. |
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| 10 | 184 |
What was going on here? Why had I been brought here? What was I to do here? What was expected of me? It seemingly had something to do with my being a tarnsman, but, beyond that, I understood very little, little or nothing. |
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| 10 | 188 |
In his seemingly slumberous stolidity he reminded me a bit of the inert larls who crouched at the edges of the platform. |
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| 10 | 430 |
Then she cried out, "You!" He who had spoken was the fellow on the platform at the right hand of Lord Nishida, he in the informal, brown robe, seemingly indicative of no caste in particular, he of the short-cropped blond hair, and heavy features, he whom I took to be an agent of Kurii. |
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| 10 | 622 |
The Earth woman was well displayed, and Lord Nishida scrutinized her closely, and, seemingly, though he gave little overt expression of this, approvingly. |
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| 10 | 628 |
"You have been unwittingly a slave for months, even for some weeks when you were still engaging in your petty, deceitful games on behalf of your firm, plying your wiles and charms, seemingly so innocently, to wheedle and coax wealth from clients, pathetically dazzled males as you saw it, men whom, g... |
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| 15 | 161 |
What else has she, on this perilous world, seemingly so harsh and strange, to cling to? Who else understands her, and whence she has come, and what has been done to her? Who else is there with whom she might speak, with whom else might she hope to share her thoughts, or fears?" "She may speak with t... |
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| 17 | 50 |
I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins. |
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| 18 | 309 |
His concern had seemingly been scorned, perhaps even mocked. |
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| 28 | 281 |
Does she not then, chained in her cage at night, try fruitlessly to tear the collar from her throat? Then, in the morning, after sobbing herself to a fitful sleep, she is ordered forth from her cage again, naked, on all fours, in her shackles, to be again abused and set once more to arduous, exhaust... |
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| 28 | 468 |
Doubtless he supposed this had something to do with the seemingly inveterate and irascible tensions and tempers of barbarians. |
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| 29 | 71 |
We moved toward the head of the column, it now arrested, as most of the drovers, and others, had abandoned the wagons to hurry forward, to see at last before them a vista, and not the gloomy, enclosing walls of a seemingly endless corridor of trees. |
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| 38 | 181 |
Such things, perhaps seemingly small to an outsider, are rich with significance. |
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| 38 | 275 |
Perhaps I had done Licinius no great favor, considering he seemed ill equipped with forest craft, was seemingly unable to live off the land, hold a direction, elude pursuit, and such. |
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| 2 | 4 |
We detected it first, by the glass of the Builders, from the stem castle, far off, through the fog, not clear, seemingly risen from the sea as might a mountain, as the islands that Thassa sometimes lifts from her bosom, in southern waters, with a roiling of waves, a casting of stones, and smoke and ... |
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| 3 | 1173 |
I recalled that when I, in my escape, had been descending the stairs in the cylinder, I had heard her, relieved of her gag, above, seemingly joyfully, gratefully, cry out the word 'Masters!' 'I burned your robes,' she said, 'that they might not give your scent to sleen. |
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| 4 | 24 |
He reminded me of a seemingly somnolent larl, pretending to be asleep, lying in the grasses, near a watering hole. |
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| 4 | 39 |
The larger one of the Pani, the heavier, seemingly somnolent one, was Lord Okimoto. |
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| 7 | 124 |
I did not blame them for wishing to be relieved of the miseries of their chain and housing, and at almost any price, but, too, I had seen such behavior even in calmer weather, when Thassa was pleased to be serene, or seemingly so, perhaps meanwhile planning her next onslaught on men so foolish as to... |
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| 12 | 111 |
I had seen in Ar, more than once, how the most seemingly innocent discourse could be suddenly, cleverly, twisted into a provocative quarrel, and an exchange of insults, leading to swords, commonly in a park or in the Plaza of Tarns, at dawn, when few were about. |
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| 12 | 753 |
"Ahead, dead ahead!" called Leros, from above, his voice seemingly far away. |
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| 13 | 44 |
That was seemingly solved on the second night. |
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| 13 | 52 |
Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and... |
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| 16 | 21 |
From the starboard rail, given the height of the ship of Tersites, we could look down on both our galley and, higher, the deck of the seemingly unmanned ship. |
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| 17 | 42 |
In any event, when the first group of the Venna keeping area was brought for its airing and exercise to the open deck, this Pertinax was usually about, interestingly, seemingly preoccupied with one duty or another. |
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| 22 | 217 |
Shortly thereafter I understood why Lord Nishida had not ordered the seemingly judicious retreat I would have expected. |
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| 24 | 36 |
But now it struck me, and eerily, that this seemingly fearful omission, the denial of eyes, was not so much a bold repudiation of common marine practice and lore as a concession to it deeper than was easily understood. |
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| 24 | 111 |
It suggested that this value might be unrecognized or, more likely, given the interest Seremides had expressed in her, that it was immaterial to the Pani who were seemingly in no need of economic resources, or, at least, of such a kind. |
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| 28 | 5 |
"These," I said, and, holding them bent over, in leading position, one on my left, one on my right, I produced two slaves, lengthily tunicked, as the Pani seemingly preferred. |
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| 33 | 205 |
"Seemingly so," said he. |
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| 36 | 253 |
The stranger's blade was like an extension of his arm, seemingly as natural, and as thoughtless, as uncalculating, as the now-exposed claws on the paw of a stalking larl. |
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| 37 | 423 |
"Oh?" said Callias, seemingly distracted. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 366 |
The blue eyes of the Lady Bina regarded me, over the street veil, seemingly pleasantly, seemingly impassively. |
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| 15 | 221 |
Then there had been word of the seemingly rash flight of the thieves, seemingly so inexplicable, emerging in daylight in the market of Cestias, in the vicinity of the very platform of a praetor, with guardsmen aplenty about, amongst the vendors and stalls. |
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| 45 | 6 |
In a moment, they were rolling on the floor of the hall, seemingly intent on tearing out one another's hair, seemingly clawing at one another like embroiled she-sleen, while the male crouched nearby, waiting to pull the victor to his burrow by the fur at the back of the neck. |
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| 45 | 7 |
The two guards turned about, to watch the sobbing, screaming, seemingly tearing, seemingly scratching slaves. |
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| 8 | 1846 |
A smile, an ankle seemingly inadvertently extended, colored string wound about it, a touching of one's collar, a shy glance, a way of turning, of looking over one's shoulder. |
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| 9 | 60 |
It suddenly occurred to me that the woman, seemingly unfamiliar with such obvious things, might not be Gorean. |
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| 9 | 145 |
I had, some days ago, when out of the gambling house on an errand, barefoot, in my short, purple tunic, with its lettering on the back, seen a seemingly free woman, in lovely robes and veils, seized and stripped by guardsmen. |
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| 15 | 94 |
This sort of information seems somehow to travel rapidly about, perhaps as a result of a master's seemingly casual or inadvertent remark, overheard by some unpleasant urchin, a snide observation by another slave, one informed, and perhaps jealous of the beauty of the new slave, perhaps as the result... |
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| 17 | 88 |
I fear much that was foolish gushed forth from me, but words had tumbled forth, seemingly endlessly, for Ahn, even amidst grateful tears. |
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| 17 | 187 |
Much from the Lady Bina and from the translator I did not understand, that having to do with distant worlds, exotic engineerings, unusual weaponries, strange customs and holidays, diverse races and cultures, troubled histories, and such, and with mysterious projects, factions, and wars, seemingly cu... |
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| 21 | 30 |
In any event, Jane, who was not first girl, as we had no first girl, had seemingly, without permission, arrogated to herself a talmit, commonly understood as a badge of authority. |
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| 21 | 113 |
I heard something, several things, seemingly large things, scrambling, and grunting and squealing, descending the hillside on the other side of the wagon. |
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| 26 | 22 |
"Others," said the Lady Bina, observing the approaching figure, small in the distance, stumbling, seemingly forcing itself to move, "can trail nearly as well as a sleen". |
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| 27 | 88 |
Pennons and streamers, too, were about, and flowers, seemingly anomalous in the terrain, for we knew not then of the illuminated gardens within the Cave. |
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| 29 | 15 |
Again I heard some sounds in Kur, to my ears still little more than a bestial rumbling, reminiscent of sounds which one might expect from something like a larl, or sleen, but, oddly enough, different, seemingly articulated. |
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| 35 | 73 |
All this would be seemingly done within the weapon and technology laws of the Priest-Kings, until the final phase, the invasion of Gor from the remote habitats, abetted by the numerous emplaced Kurii, with their contraband weaponry". |
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| 35 | 160 |
The second level of concealment, of course, is that these seemingly meaningless signs are mostly related to the alphabet". |
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| 37 | 126 |
"Seemingly so," I said. |
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| 41 | 35 |
To secure the very leader of the enemy was seemingly too great a prize to be ignored, and the machine, following its two scouts, abandoned its hitherto stately pace. |
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| 46 | 70 |
Too, how, under the obtaining conditions, could one proceed, how meet and plan? How could one contact others? Might not even something as seemingly innocent as a pack of cards be suspect? How could one recruit? Who, under these conditions, would join such a perilous enterprise? Two men, in earnest c... |
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| 48 | 281 |
"Do not be afraid," said Timarchos, obviously in pain, but yet seemingly alert, leaning forward, his eyes glistening. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 42 |
As with so many others, she seemingly found her life largely a round of banalities. |
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| 2 | 71 |
I recalled how she had kissed the whip, frightened, to be sure, but, too, seemingly gratefully. |
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| 5 | 45 |
That fearful moment, the interval of our interaction, brief but seemingly prolonged, which had seemed oddly fixed in time and space, must be swept away, and forgotten as soon as possible. |
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| 5 | 113 |
It idled its way through daydreams, and, more than once, recurred in my dreams, from which I, seemingly rooted in place and unable to flee, would abruptly waken. |
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| 8 | 244 |
From the first moment I had seen her, her shocked, trim, well-turned, exciting, slender body seemingly arrested in motion, then uncertain, wavering, and the startled, vulnerable expression in her eyes, her suddenly paled, sensitive, exquisite features, the parted, ready, inviting, kissable lips, in ... |
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| 8 | 517 |
It had been ready yesterday, but, seemingly, was waiting for the first ship. |
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| 14 | 88 |
Seemingly you were feared. |
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| 16 | 22 |
An end had apparently come to the seemingly endless round of cutting and hauling, lopping, the rough shaping, and rude trimming, to the backbreaking labor in the forest, the purpose of which was never explained to us. |
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| 16 | 24 |
I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an... |
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| 19 | 62 |
"If all is so innocent, or seemingly so," I said, "why not manage the business in the day?" "Too many are about," he said. |
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| 21 | 321 |
I was confident that we might not have left that small clearing alive, were it not that we were seemingly required as elements, essential elements, in some business which eluded my comprehension. |
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| 23 | 107 |
I wondered if some terrible secret was housed here, in this strange place, seemingly lost in the northern forests. |
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| 25 | 304 |
She might behave as before, should it be his wish, as it may be, but, too, if he wishes, he might snap his fingers, speak a simple word, point to the floor, or such, and he will have at his disposal something seemingly quite different, something free women can only enviously suspect, to their rage, ... |
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| 39 | 7 |
She appeared to be a slave, but there were men behind her, seemingly several men. |
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| 39 | 529 |
For such a large animal, seemingly agile, and sinuous, it had seemed momentarily unsteady. |
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| 43 | 1101 |
The seemingly most placid, and tame, of such beasts carries within its pelt, and surely not far beneath the fur, the ancient blood and antique heritage of Gor's most fearsome land predator. |
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| 43 | 1260 |
The beast then, seemingly content, drew to one side, and lay down. |
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| 48 | 64 |
Seemingly it had availed itself here of this natural cover. |
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| 48 | 75 |
The smaller beast had been following me, seemingly content, at least for the time being, for some reason, to do no more than keep me within its range. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 4 |
Surely our seemingly frightened wraith in the corridor, she who had fled from us, seemingly so distraught, earlier on the second level of the palace, might still be in the palace. |
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| 4 | 147 |
That he should be taken with the haughty Sumomo, contract woman of a daimyo, who seemingly despised him, and surely treated him with contempt, seemed anomalous. |
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| 9 | 56 |
An awesome sight met their eyes, hundreds of Pani warriors, in white garments, having seemingly performed ablutions and purified themselves, lay crumpled in the remains of what must have been a great number of serried ranks. |
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| 13 | 153 |
Had it not been for the intervention of Priest-Kings or Kurii, or both, I think the remnants of Lord Temmu's land forces would have perished on a beach long ago, rather than appearing, seemingly unaccountably, in the vicinity of Brundisium on continental Gor. |
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| 13 | 439 |
Even the wisp of an allusion, or a seemingly unrelated or meaningless action, the dispatch of a messenger, the nature of the seal on a document, the ordering of a map, may sometimes hint at movements, at routes, at alliances. |
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| 21 | 110 |
Unbeknownst to herself she had been detected on the outer parapet of the holding of Temmu by the warrior, Tajima, seemingly communicating with minions of Lord Yamada, waiting below. |
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| 30 | 56 |
* * * "That is a field slave, is it not?" had growled a stout peasant, seemingly a high man in one of the villages at which we had taken shelter. |
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| 30 | 748 |
"Who will pull the rice cart?" "Ho," said the voice, seemingly suddenly pacified, and interested. |
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| 42 | 48 |
Behind the tent, they encountered Haruki, seemingly bewildered, indicating the two mysteriously prone Ashigaru, whom our new arrivals, the other two Ashigaru, quickly joined. |
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| 44 | 229 |
"No!" The large object faced south, not really moving, seemingly suspended, just rocking a little in the air, much as a ship might rock in the water. |
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| 44 | 230 |
It had been years, too, since I had witnessed solid objects which could remain in place, as did that object, with little or no visible motion, silent, seemingly effortlessly suspended, almost as though alive, waiting. |
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| 44 | 235 |
A dozen tarns, from the sides, swept toward the seemingly patient, still thing, in the sky, quiet as though waiting, and arrows and Anango darts struck sparks and rang against it. |
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| 46 | 449 |
"The peasant Eito," I said, "though seemingly well to do, and presumably peaceful and law-abiding, respectful of authority, and such, was clearly pleased at the slaying of the warrior, Izo. |
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| 49 | 230 |
Pertinax and I, then, our hands seemingly bound behind us, preceded Tajima down the corridor. |
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| 57 | 56 |
Later he, and his colleague, took flight, it was rumored to pledge their swords to the house of Temmu, to which house they had seemingly been long devoted, and in whose interest they had labored secretly. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 60 |
I feared that Kurik of Victoria, seemingly so calm, seemingly so oblivious of the danger, was now deranged, or mad. |
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| 63 | 36 |
Paula had been so shy, and quiet, seemingly dazzled by my vivacity and intelligence, seemingly admiring my verve, wit, and charm. |
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| 1 | 478 |
But how could I receive a locksmith, clad as I was, armed with no excuse that might not border on the inane or transparently meretricious? Too, might he not suspect my motivations? Might he not even fear a fraud, a scandal or extortion, of some sort, a girl who might suddenly struggle and scream, th... |
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| 5 | 150 |
"Oh," said the one who had asked the question, seemingly satisfied. |
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| 6 | 475 |
But one supposes there might have been another purpose, as well, to that seemingly small, but surely awesome, demonstration. |
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| 8 | 273 |
How can some, I wondered, pretend to be ignorant of the tensions, the cords of interest and desire, which attend the interactions of the sexes? Are they unaware of the radical centrality of sexuality to the human condition? Do they lie, or are they somehow ignorant, or inert, simply blind to the tur... |
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| 9 | 324 |
The free woman approached, seemingly incredulously. |
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| 9 | 412 |
"Perhaps then," she said, seemingly mollified, "she need only be lashed to within a bit of a hort of her life". |
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| 11 | 112 |
It might serve to coordinate activities; it might serve to hearten; to inspirit, and lift hearts; it might be intended to seemingly shorten hours and lighten labors, and so on. |
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| 11 | 169 |
I lay, seemingly unconscious in my chains. |
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| 13 | 73 |
I had glimpsed the rider, helmeted, seemingly small on his mighty mount. |
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| 19 | 26 |
To be sure, there are a thousand ways a girl can signify her needs, and her supplications that her master will condescend to satisfy them, glances, subtle movements, seemingly inadvertent proximities, tiny sounds, kneelings, licking and kissing the feet and ankles, and then raising one's eyes, tear-... |
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| 20 | 33 |
The usual theft takes place by cutting the strings of the purse or wallet, commonly in a seemingly inadvertent contact or in the press of a throng. |
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| 28 | 7 |
"Is she truly so ugly?" asked Tyrtaios, the dark bandage swathing his eyes, seemingly surprised, even dismayed. |
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| 28 | 19 |
"But I need her, to show me my way!" laughed Tyrtaios, seemingly joining in the sport. |
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| 33 | 218 |
What is difficult, and perhaps impossible, is suddenly at one's disposal, and, seemingly, familiar and even trivial. |
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| 33 | 223 |
It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so. |
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| 33 | 667 |
How had he dared to place himself, armed with naught but that sliver of a knife, between a Kur and its quarry? The largest Kur, it whom I took to be their leader, it with the two rings on its left wrist, to whom the others had seemingly deferred, stood near the fallen lantern, and looked about. |
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| 33 | 670 |
I could see its two large, pointed ears lift from the sides of its head, broaden, and, seemingly cupped, incline toward me. |
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| 34 | 55 |
The discretion of the tavern master and his attendants was seemingly deemed sufficient. |
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| 34 | 108 |
But suppose then the remnants of the destroyed world discovered new worlds, one lovely, as lovely as was their former world, and another, one seemingly engaged in the same dismal, menacing process of climbing to the same harrowing, technological summit, polluted with the same territorialities and ha... |
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| 38 | 36 |
"Tell me everything that occurred," he said, "no matter how seemingly unimportant or trivial, following your departure from the fountain of Aiakos". |
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| 41 | 51 |
I remembered the strong, handsome fellow, with long, powerful arms, a kajirus, or one seemingly a kajirus. |
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| 41 | 146 |
"I was to deliver a message to a personage named Grendel, Lord Grendel," she said, "but I never saw him, only the woman, who is seemingly free, and her gigantic beast". |
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| 42 | 89 |
I then told them of the supposed gratitude of a supposed Lord Arcesilaus, seemingly a Kur, spoken of as the Twelfth Face of the Nameless One, entitled "Theocrat of the World," or, at least, I supposed, of one world, a particular steel world, a gratitude that was to find expression in a gift, a gift ... |
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| 51 | 13 |
She was then, after a time, her business seemingly concluded, conducted away, to be returned to her secret location in the palace, which secret location was now known to us, thanks to the intelligence afforded by the Lady Alexina, who had been only too pleased to be removed from Lyris' cage and retu... |
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| 53 | 318 |
At his feet, looped, seemingly discarded, was the chaining, the manacles, shackles, collar, and such, that had restrained Lyris. |
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| 54 | 147 |
Lord Grendel reached down to the floor of the bridge and lifted up the heavy linkage of the chain that had lain, looped, seemingly discarded, at his feet. |
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| 55 | 28 |
Lord Grendel turned back, seemingly to see the three remaining of the six who had held the bridge before us. |
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| 59 | 69 |
Who knew what lay beyond the two closed doors? Who knew, then, even the meaning of that bit of smoke? I did know that some four or five Kurii, like wild beasts, seemingly out of their senses, had entered the bower about the same time that I had been hurried from it, toward the house. |
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| 61 | 338 |
Many men, clearly, wavered, seemingly confused, surely not knowing what to do, willing neither to obey nor to refuse to obey. |
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| 63 | 209 |
The wagon was slow and ponderous, seemingly a poor choice if one were interested in effecting a surreptitious escape. |
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| 63 | 224 |
"What fugitives," she asked, "would behave so, so foolishly, seemingly frustrating their own designs?" "I see," I said. |
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| 64 | 15 |
She seemingly respected them and enjoyed them. |
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| 65 | 129 |
"Seemingly so," said Paula. |
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| 65 | 406 |
I now understood the contents of the one sack, large, and seemingly filled with cloth, which had puzzled me earlier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 284 |
We were taught personal hygiene, and cleanliness, perfumes and cosmetics, the stringing of jewelries, the affixing of bangles, bracelets, and beads, the draping of tunics, the binding on of a camisk, the subtleties of the ta-teera, or slave rag, seemingly so artless, and yet so cunning. |
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| 3 | 261 |
Another fellow I had intrigued with the prospect of sex and then, when we were alone, I demurred, seemingly unaccountably, in amusement, and told him to leave. |
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| 4 | 251 |
We heard the gong sound, again, seemingly far off. |
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| 6 | 74 |
So much had occurred, so suddenly, so seemingly incomprehensibly! How inexplicably, how radically, my life had changed! Could this have happened to me, I wondered. |
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| 6 | 263 |
What slave is not familiar with the "Buy me, Master" call? I lay in the furs, seemingly neglected. |
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| 11 | 388 |
Addison Steele, had not only, at least seemingly, failed to be moved by my charms, but was actually indifferent to me. |
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| 23 | 48 |
Two guardsmen were standing near me, over me, seemingly puzzled. |
10 |
| 23 | 103 |
Too, seemingly, she cannot speak. |
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| 23 | 136 |
My attire, seemingly so inexplicable and absurd, attracted much attention and, I fear, some derision. |
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| 25 | 8 |
Despite my uneasiness, my trepidation, and such, I was muchly pleased that I had been purchased, even by such a man, before the return of the seemingly murderously intent Dorna of Tharna. |
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| 25 | 133 |
What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator. |
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| 26 | 39 |
I was very still, seemingly unable to move. |
10 |
| 26 | 78 |
I had seen few sights so seemingly laden with menace. |
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| 27 | 20 |
He looked to the left and right, seemingly somnolent by the wall. |
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| 27 | 30 |
The project, allegedly, seemingly so generous, benign, and noble, was the acquisition of the supposed former Lady Felitia Thaliana, of Besnit, in order to free her and restore her to her family in Besnit. |
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| 31 | 94 |
Then, coughing, wavering, seemingly finding it difficult to speak, he lifted his right hand, sword grasped, in the air. |
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| 32 | 106 |
I wanted no part in such matters, matters I did not understand, which were seemingly fraught with danger. |
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| 33 | 110 |
After a time then, the man in the bow, seemingly satisfied, motioned that the oarsman should proceed. |
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| 33 | 176 |
Once again then I heard sounds seemingly emanating from the large, frightening artifact in the water, that formed so much like a predatory, aquatic beast. |
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| 36 | 126 |
Yesterday, when I was bringing Florian's list of, and inventory of, ka-la-nas of Market of Semris upstairs from one of the wine cellars to the office of Luma, a free woman, the only free woman in the holding as far as I knew, who was seemingly the accountant and business manager of the holding, I ha... |
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| 37 | 17 |
Both Florian and Miles were in street robes, seemingly two gentlemen at leisure. |
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| 37 | 39 |
The sound of the ringing seemed to continue, even past the last stroke, ringing in my memory, seemingly unwilling to vanish. |
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| 37 | 149 |
"First you take us for scribes and now for thieves," said Miles, reprovingly, seemingly offended. |
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| 38 | 68 |
Convention, education, culture, and law, seemingly the very air one breathed, from the cradle on, was engineered to demasculinize men, to make them fear their nature, to betray their blood, to suspect and be ashamed of their most natural interests, desires, impulses, and urges. |
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| 39 | 70 |
Once again I was aware of his seemingly inexplicable animosity toward the Golden Chain, and its slaves. |
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| 41 | 65 |
From somewhere, seemingly far off, I heard the shouts of men and the clash of blades. |
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| 42 | 62 |
Thus the bargain is yours and you live, your honor untarnished!" The small sack, seemingly containing something metal, doubtless three silver tarsks, struck on the floor, not feet from where we knelt. |
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| 47 | 366 |
"There was a monster in the delta, seemingly of supple metal, powerful and vast, consorting with Pa-Kur," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | 76 |
The two fellows with tridents and bait sacks were now quite close, but seemingly unconcerned with us, seemingly intent only on their fishing. |
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| 1 | 94 |
"One came before as you," he said, "days ago, seemingly, too, of the Merchants. |
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| 4 | 56 |
"Seemingly so," I said. |
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| 11 | 146 |
Once again my hand, seemingly nervously, appeared to confirm that some object, perhaps one of interest, might lie within my robe. |
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| 12 | 12 |
To be sure, who knew what undiscovered riches might occur in remote regions? My seemingly reckless, unguarded distribution of the tiny gold disks in the tavern of The Living Island was intended to overcome any possible doubts as to the reality of The Village of Flowing Gold. |
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| 18 | 81 |
Interestingly, it seems likely, as such things have often occurred, that large animals, megafauna, are commonly brought to extinction by a smaller, seemingly unlikely foe. |
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| 22 | 79 |
It seemed incredible that he would attend to such seemingly trivial matters as abetting corsairs afflicting the Farther Islands. |
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| 27 | 16 |
We had determined, at the time of the fair, at least to our satisfaction, that the 'Three Ubaras' were also utilized by the corsairs as decoy women, the supposed survivors of shipwrecks or piratical attacks, three pathetic free women seemingly in desperate need of rescue. |
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| 33 | 75 |
One or two of the others added their acquiescence, as well, seemingly grudgingly. |
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| 51 | 122 |
I saw a helmeted figure slip beneath the water, seemingly drawn under the surface, one hand raised, as though it might be grasped by someone. |
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| 60 | 33 |
"Seemingly paying us no mind". |
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| 60 | 34 |
"Seemingly," said Clitus. |
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| 60 | 194 |
A few yards down the dock, Clitus moved to the edge of the dock, to my left, to his right, his net dangling from his left hand, the trident in his right hand, seemingly, oddly, unengaged in matters at hand. |
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